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Carnifex

Car"ni*fex\, n. [L., fr. caro, carnis, flesh + facere to make.] (Antiq.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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